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Businesses should practise thinking like activist investors before they are attacked themselves
Companies are getting better at spotting great character
A review of the courses that elite business schools are increasingly giving away online
For anything requiring intellectual or emotional sophistication, corporate ‘training’ is easy meat for the eye-rollers
Great missionaries did not risk failing to find a market fit. They risked being eaten
Pope Francis’s modest style reflects a new set of priorities
The effectiveness of staff benefits can be measured and analysed
Collaboration and persuasion are the new tools in a demanding work environment
The group owes much of its success to a experienced managers, writes Philip Delves Broughton
The use of forecasting methods in mangement is coming but it is taking longer than expected
Companies are looking to futurists to help them understand how new trends will affect their business
US dance troupe Pilobolus sees productivity as the only measure of being creative
Florian Homm, known as the ‘Antichrist of Finance’, the After years in hiding, hedge fund maverick Florian Homm says his children inspired him to reform
CEOs who played well earned 17% more on average than those who played either poorly or not at all
There is a growing feeling that an eight-year boom is over
Shopping centres are winning a new lease of life by redefining themselves, writes Philip Delves Broughton
Secrets that give top sellers the edge
Rediscovering the lost art of sales
Politicians come and go Murdoch represents long-lived, market-tested institutional power
For managing, read muddling in mediocrity
Would-be entrepreneurs are flocking to start-up boot camps
Artistic endeavour keeps manufacturer alive
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